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Title: Acrobat Studio is Adobe's new AI-powered hub for PDFs

Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 13:00:03 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/ai/acrobat-studio-is...

Whether you love or hate them, PDFs are an inescapable part of the job for
many of us. In fact, it's safe to say the format isn't going away anytime
soon, with Adobe reporting there are 3 trillion PDFs in circulation
worldwide. However, there's no denying they can be a pain to work with, and
in an effort to make it easier to manage projects involving multiple PDFs,
Adobe is launching a new product today called Acrobat Studio. And wouldn't
you know it, the company is marketing the inclusion of generative AI tools as
a major selling point of the suite.

The main feature of Acrobat Studio are hubs Adobe calls PDF Spaces. Here, you
can upload up to 100 files ΓÇö including PDFs of course, alongside public web
pages, RTFs, DOCXs and more ΓÇö and Acrobat Studio's built-in AI assistants
will help you make sense of everything. To start, the hub will generate a
summary of all the documents, with a few pre-populated prompts to help with
further analysis. Accompanying each bullet point from the AI is a citation
you can use to verify the model's summary by quickly jumping to the document
it pulled the information from. Sharing your PDF Spaces with colleagues is
built right into Acrobat Studio.

In addition to chatting with Acrobat Studio's AI assistant, you can create
custom assistants to carry out specific tasks. By default, Adobe offers three
of these ΓÇö analyst, instructor and entertainer ΓÇö to get you started. The
names do a decent job of communicating each assistant's purpose. For example,
the instructor will attempt to explain complex topics. You can create your
own by writing a set of custom prompts.

There are some notable limitations to PDF Spaces. For one, the hub's
generative AI features currently only work with documents written in English.
Adobe says it will add support for other languages "over time." Similarly,
the hub can't analyze videos, handwritten notes and password-protected files.

Outside of PDF Spaces, Acrobat Studio offers access to Adobe Express built
right into the app, meaning you can use Adobe's Firefly AI models to generate
commercially safe images for your PDFs. As you would expect, the suite also
comes with Adobe Acrobat and all the tools you might need to create and edit
your own protected documents.

Pricing for Acrobat Studio starts at $25 per month for individuals, with a 14-
day trial available.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at
https://www.engadget.com/ai/acrobat-studio-is...
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